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The war ended. Mrs. Town came back to the Delta and Old Man Town built her a $100,000 house with $50 doorknobs. She added an "e" to her name. Next year Old Man Towne raised dollar cotton. Mrs. Towne, pallid Loraine and nympholeptic little Elaine went to Europe. Van...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cotton King | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Authentic Jellybean. Mrs. Towne and her daughters came back. Mrs. Towne was "overflowing with misinterpreted Continental idioms, bad hotel French, and a lofty disdain for everything American." Elaine got herself pregnant, and half the young sports in the Delta made up a $10,000 purse for the salesman who married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cotton King | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Management representatives chosen for the council: W.P. Witherow, president of Blaw-Knox and new president of the National Association of Manufacturers; Rubber Executive Cyrus Ching and Shipping Tycoon Roger Lapham (both of the National Defense Mediation Board); General Electric's Charles Wilson; Lawrence Bell (aircraft); W. Gibson Carey Jr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Affairs: Perilous Position | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

Little Men (R. K. O. Radio, is the third cinema which harum-scarum Scenarists Gene Towne and Graham Baker have put out on their own. A "streamlined film version" of Louisa May Alcott's novel about life at the Plumfield Farm Boarding School in the late 19th Century, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

"Willoughby damned, but Harvard looks Pfister than ever to me while the Yale players look Talbot not so heavy," screamed Huey from his seat behind the goal line. "From the way our backs are Burnam up the field, we should Seymour scoring than we have have all year. It's...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HIGHER THE SPREYER, OR NO STAHLMATE TOMORROW"--HUEY | 11/22/1940 | See Source »

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